I have been using this method for about 10 years now. The one thing I learned is after I clip the pages together, is to score/file the edge that you plan to glue, with and emery board/nail file or even a file. Doing this gives grip and strength to the pages to the glue and helps prevent pages falling out of the glue
@@ArnaudMEURET yes, by roughening it up, you create more surface area and friction for the glue to stick. and you can saw grooves perpendicular to the spine or slanted towards the spine, after one round of glue is dry. then you can put a cord in the perpendicular/slanted groove, and glue that on top, w an extra round of glue (i usually do 3-4 total glue sessions depending on how thick my text block is). the concept here is create a cross hatch for the joint so it won't pop off. that means using a support material like cloth/rope/cord/wood/backing etc, perpendicular to where there's the break. same goes for reinforcing paper and cardboard. i use the grocery paper bags as disposable trash cans for my art. they bend tho, so i cut the top off and glue the extra vertically on the sides. that gives it structure.
Even better than that is to cut small grooves in the clamped spine with a very thin blade like for coping or a small dovetail saw. Cut grooves about every inch or two, apply glue and then lay upholsters thread in those grooves and let it hang down over each side by 2” or in this case you could just trim it the same length as her red strip so it doesn’t stick out.
I used to work in a copy shop years ago, and I remember having access to a tape binding machine. It was basically this style of binding, but with a pre-impregnated strip that was thermally activated (so a hot glue gun style adhesive) rather than PVA. I used to download public domain books from Project Gutenberg and make half page books out of them (I'm in the US, so basically 5.5 x 8.5 inch pages). It was a really cool way to DIY a novel before ebook readers became more common. I also used chip board and one of my favorite paper stocks to make pocket notebooks (like a Field Notes, but not saddle stitched.) It was a cool way to use paper trimmed from larger stock that was otherwise too small to print on.
In my young years I worked in a factory where they laminated paper to cardboard. I operated a guillotine knife cutter, and often due to the size of a job we'd have some big offcut that we knew couldn't be used for any upcoming jobs. Putting the paper on the shelf meant it'd dry up and be useless. So I'd chop them down to a nice size, cut some .032" cardboard to match, and use the glue from the machines and a technique much like this to make note pads for the employees to take home and use. You can tear the pages out if you want, but this method is surprisingly effective at keeping that hard to do.
My 12 year old grandson wrote his autobiography. It is 20 pages (plus some additions)and we were trying to figure out how to bind it! This is so perfect and your instructions are wonderful. They are clear and simple. Thank you!
My grandfather was a journalist and we always had endless stocks of paper around the house, some of the documents or empty journals being binded just like that. I had no clue that they were HAND binded! It makes so much sense, since he loved to DIY everything. Oh, it makes me so nostalgic. Thank you for tutorial 🤍
A Manila file folder could substitute for the card stock and strip of tape. Folders are usually scored along the fold edge to get more width. Fold as will be needed for the depth of the stack of loose papers. Glue the loose papers as shown here but without the card stock covers. Add glue to the inside of the folder down in the crease, add the glued loose papers and clamp.
Thank you so much for demonstrating this type of binding!! I'm a full-time graduate student, and I am constantly printing and filing my research papers. Now, I can make my favorites into beautiful books. Also, I greatly appreciate how you've kept the materials simple and affordable!🌟
I love this. There must have been, oh, 25,000 moments over the past couple of decades when my limited intellect prevented me from thinking of this myself but it would have been perfect. Thank you. Beautifully presented.
My friends and I recently got into a game that has all its rules online in pdf format, and I was looking for a way to bind them together when I printed them out. This looks like a great solution in terms of cost, time, and simplicity. I don't expect the rulebook to be very big, but if it was, I'd imagine a stitching method might be better in that case. This simple method also seems like it'd work nicely for some other projects I've had in mind.
Same I'm here because of printing out PDFs that are 20-30 pages for my players of pathfinder roleplaying game using a Canon PIXMA G620 inkwell. Printing on card stock. Fun to spoil your players sometimes. Great video!
as someone who has never been able to will myself to write/draw in a non-ring journal for fear of ruining/wasting it but have been able to use ones that other people handmade for me, this is invaluable
I love this. I don't know why, but I'm drawn to printing and binding. My career has nothing to with this, aside from doing battle with office printers to get a few sheets out of them. Thank you for sharing this.
Ah yes. But I used huge bull clips, wish I'd known this technique then. Those were the days. They promised us the "paperless office" and we ended up killing forests-worth of trees to capture our zillion-page printouts!
Having bound thousands of books as double fan adhesive binds (most with specialised equipment, but many by hand), I can say this is a thorough and skilled presentation. The importance of grain direction is perhaps understated, since cross-grained papers often produce a waviness along the gutter margin that is unsightly and degrades openability. Same goes for coated (slick magazine) papers. Probably best to leave other attachments near the spine, like staples, out -- as they will interfere with consistent fanning and produce unbalanced stresses after binding. Also, if you're not too steady with the glue brush and want a more stable target than that springy spine, you can roll the clamped stack of pages around a length of thick dowel -- as long as the clamps are far enough away from the spine. Also, for a somewhat sturdier construction or with very heavy paper stocks, the reinforcing spine strip can be augmented by adding a thin layer (paper or cloth) covering the width of the spine only. Simplest way to do this precisely is by including several waste sheets on both sides of the initial fan bind. After drying, the spine can be reglued and a generous strip of paper or cloth attached. After drying, a sharp knife is inserted on top of the last waste sheet before the cover stock. Holding the blade very flat against the book at a mid-angle to the spine cut all the outer waste sheets, glue, and excess reinforcement away -- without any scalloping cuts into the cover stock. After both sides are trimmed this way the remaining sheet of waste paper can be peeled away from each side. Should be very straight and clean, with only a bit of skinning at the edge. Add final colored strip to back and sides. (Unless this is considered a very temporary binding, it's best to avoid tapes and stick to glues here.)
This was brilliant. Thank you. I'm a collector of hobbies and crafting and some of my pass times result in tons of loose-leaf material. I get very sad when I lose pages, ripped off of staples or lost out of bundles, but I have never found a satisfactory way to store neatly. Never occurred to me that I could do a simple binding on them. Truly thank you
I absolutely love your video. I hope you come back. I spent at least a year in South Africa and the charming lilt of the SA accent is not lost on me. Have a beautiful holiday !season and I’ll try your tricks for binding 17 Holiday booklets for my seniors’ communities where i sing. Take care, Susan.
What a wonderful find! I usually put all my music in 3 ring binders or pay to have plastic comb binding. This is so lovely and clean! Thank you for sharing.
This was exactly what I needed! Clear, simple, easy to follow instructions with no silly fluff, only useful information. Many thanks for your video! 🙏💞
When I took print shop in the 1960s we were taught to "pad" paper. Special clamps were used to hold the paper. Glue was painted on the spine. If the pad was made for tear off the glue was left to dry. More permanent attachment of papers were accomplished by applying backing cloth to the spine. When the paper paper came off the clamp glue was applied and backing cloth bent around the faces
YOU should have made a video! There is actual valuable info. here..the one we just watched was elementary and pretty much a waste of time. Appreciate your info re cloth on the spine. Thanx.
Oh, I like this! When you were listing off the options at the beginning of the video, ai THOUGHT you were going to go down the rabbit hole of using a sewing machine to bind the pages together, But I LOVE THIS OPTION! THANK YOU!!!
was thinking of dipping my pages in glue so came to yt for some clairty & found your brilliant vid...quick,straight to point & an easy to do fix..thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing I have been writing my story for my children and was wondering how I was going to bind it, This is perfect. Thanks again.
My IPad is full and I mean FULL of copied pictures and notes from tutorials. It takes me so long to find articles I need, but now I can print them all out and bind and name and file them.. Thank you for saving my sanity….Lynne.
this is exactly what I needed! I have an opera score that is currently living in a binder, which is clunky and difficult to maneuver in rehearsal, and the first loose page binding tutorial I tried was effective, but a bit more time consuming, not as polished as I'd like it to be, and more difficult than this method seems. I will be giving this a go tonight!
I'm just waiting for a few more leafs to come loose in some of the older comic books I've inherited from my grandpa, and to get my plough, to finally try this method. Even though this is quite simple and effective, I'm super scared of ruining the few things I have from him.
Were they perfect bound (or loose leaves) to start with? Personally, I'd be hesitant to use this method for something that is already in signatures, especially something personally valuable. But I may be misunderstanding you.
@@AnnesiBindings the only ones with loose leaves are perfect bound. All my comics bound in signatures (staple bound) are all perfectly fine. I have a few hundred comics in both bindings, perfect and staple bound, but I've inherited only a handful of them, and some of the perfect bound ones I bought also have many loose leaves, so I'll probably try it in some of them before trying in my grandpa's comics, since they don't have as much emotional value.
this was so helpful and great for beginners like me :D thank you so much!! my final result was pretty good, just a bit worried about the middle pages of my book that look like they may fall out. i added some more glue to these pages that divide a little at their split, but other than that, a simple, fun and efficient way to bind loose pages.
So happy to have stumbled across this video as this looks like a great economical and simple way to bind sheets together. I always have great difficulty with my comb binder in remembering exactly how to do it and waste a great deal of time working out the correct method. But this is so simple, it'd be impossible to forget. I'm going to give it a try right away! Thank you!
HI, on the last day of 1999 I decided to journalize the new millennium. I found a pre-WW1 book which showed how to bind books with the traditional stitching method. I needed to create a daily record of my life and times for posterity so that my journals need to be robust to stand the test of time. I use hardboard for the covers, plaited Irish linen saddlers thread for the stitching and 140gm archival cartridge paper for the leaves. Each journal has 11 x 6 registers of folded A4 to A5 which gives me roughly a years worth of recording on a daily basis. I find that the cartridge paper takes watercolour and pen and ink sketching quite well. I have 19 volumes to date. I do a lot of design sketching on random bits of paper that tend to get thrown into a folder so your tutorial is really great and will held me keep them together. In South Africa we need to be resourceful as a lot of custom book binding is hard to come by.
Wow, thank you for this clear instruction. I just stumbled on your instruction’s while viewing art videos. I have a set of instructions that I will try this on.
Thank you so much for making this video! I was looking for a way to bind regular copy paper, as opposed to the thicker pages typically used in single-sheet binding tutorials. This is the perfect solution for me, can’t thank you enough!
oh this is perfect! ive been looking for something simple, fast, and easy to follow! this literally helped me out so much and only gave out the basic information you need to do it- thank you soo much you saved my skin by a lot!
Not sure how I ended up here, but this is the sort of thing the girls in my class would spend their afternoons on, while I was still fishing out 8 crumbled of total 12 pages from my backpack and call it a successful number.
Just what I wanted! I was thinking about doing a project that required a lot of printing and personal book making, and I wanted a way to do that without it looking rushed/bad/hacked together. Thank you for the video!
My sister prints out tons and tons of articles. She's a PhD student. This looks like it might be useful. I might see if I can bind some of them into sort of a makeshift magazine. Certainly a lot more organizers than just binder clips of paper rolling everywhere
Thank you for teaching me this book-binding method. I've been looking for an alternative to report covers and binders for smaller documents and ran across this video. It is perfect for my needs, although I am still in the practice stage and am still honing my technique.
This was incredible!! I am a musician composing classical music and have been looking to try out some binding options for sheet music. I WILL BE TRYING THIS. Thank you.😄
I've done the same thing without the binder strip. I saturated the binding with wood glue, and they have held up pretty well. I do like the strip if nothing else than cosmetics. For the outside panel I print my own cover. The title of what is contained. You can include graphics like a picture of some deer or a rose if it is appropriate. For that matter with that strip, you could print the title down the spine too.
Really enjoyed this. Used to do a little bookbinding in the past, and this is a great method for a simple small job, and it looks so finished. Only problem with this binding method is you cannot force the pages to lay flat without risk of breaking the binding. So if it's meant for hand-held reading and not being placed on a stand or a lectern, this is ideal and just looks super.
Love this! Simple but to the point and covers task from start to finish! Huge value for my time and effectiveness to complete an art journal as a birthday present, in record time! Thank you so, so much!
This is a perfect technique to bind a small booklet say like a comic book. I am doing a DIY comic book printed out on both sides of single pages off my inkjet printer one page at a time. A booklet like that which consist of around 28 to 30 pages is perfect and easy enough for this method of binding. Typically I would staple my pages together along the spine like most comic books but that is done because the comic book is a double page spread. Since I am not doing a double page layout of my book I am doing a single page layout where I print out the first page and then flip the page upside down in my printer and print on the back of the sheet to make the second page and so forth and so on until I have all pages printed. After that then I can use this technique in book binding and all I need is some clips PVA glue and some kind of strip of decorative paper or linen for the spine to bind the comic together. Its a different approach to comic book making and is not the way a professional makes a comic book but I am an independent Illustrator who works out of my own apartment and technically this is a much more efficient way for an artist like myself.
I've roughed up the clamped pages and used hot glue to DIY perfect binding like this. What I do now in addition to this is either drill (battery powered) or just push and work = a needle through the edge of the clamped or bound pages and do a running stitch. When I travel I buy little notebooks to jot things down. The pages fall out. So I sew them. Maybe 6 holes along the side. Easy to do. Doesn't impede opening or using the notebook at all.
Fantastic solution! Thank you very much. I just discovered your channel, and your tutorials are excellent. Everything is so well demonstrated, and helpful. Yhank you for sharing your expertise with us. 🙏
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I have been using this method for about 10 years now. The one thing I learned is after I clip the pages together, is to score/file the edge that you plan to glue, with and emery board/nail file or even a file. Doing this gives grip and strength to the pages to the glue and helps prevent pages falling out of the glue
underrated tip. needs to get 1000s of likes. this is so important in perfect binding.
Help me understand this better, you’re telling to roughen up the edge to bind by sanding it perpendicular to the page plane, correct ?
@@ArnaudMEURET yes, by roughening it up, you create more surface area and friction for the glue to stick.
and you can saw grooves perpendicular to the spine or slanted towards the spine, after one round of glue is dry. then you can put a cord in the perpendicular/slanted groove, and glue that on top, w an extra round of glue (i usually do 3-4 total glue sessions depending on how thick my text block is).
the concept here is create a cross hatch for the joint so it won't pop off. that means using a support material like cloth/rope/cord/wood/backing etc, perpendicular to where there's the break.
same goes for reinforcing paper and cardboard. i use the grocery paper bags as disposable trash cans for my art. they bend tho, so i cut the top off and glue the extra vertically on the sides. that gives it structure.
Even better than that is to cut small grooves in the clamped spine with a very thin blade like for coping or a small dovetail saw. Cut grooves about every inch or two, apply glue and then lay upholsters thread in those grooves and let it hang down over each side by 2” or in this case you could just trim it the same length as her red strip so it doesn’t stick out.
@@GoInfluenceyourself Cool idea. Yes that would work too.
The notebook companies don't have control over us anymore!!! I'M GOING TO MAKE SO MANY NOTEBOOKS NOW!
😂😂
Seriously! I have a bunch of loose Tomoé River, and I’m definitely doing this.
I love this comment more than anything
but what if its an evil ploy of the clue companies?
Real brooo
I used to work in a copy shop years ago, and I remember having access to a tape binding machine. It was basically this style of binding, but with a pre-impregnated strip that was thermally activated (so a hot glue gun style adhesive) rather than PVA. I used to download public domain books from Project Gutenberg and make half page books out of them (I'm in the US, so basically 5.5 x 8.5 inch pages). It was a really cool way to DIY a novel before ebook readers became more common. I also used chip board and one of my favorite paper stocks to make pocket notebooks (like a Field Notes, but not saddle stitched.) It was a cool way to use paper trimmed from larger stock that was otherwise too small to print on.
In my young years I worked in a factory where they laminated paper to cardboard. I operated a guillotine knife cutter, and often due to the size of a job we'd have some big offcut that we knew couldn't be used for any upcoming jobs. Putting the paper on the shelf meant it'd dry up and be useless. So I'd chop them down to a nice size, cut some .032" cardboard to match, and use the glue from the machines and a technique much like this to make note pads for the employees to take home and use. You can tear the pages out if you want, but this method is surprisingly effective at keeping that hard to do.
Oh what a lovely idea! I might have to try that with a few of my favorite books
Hahaha I did similar. Sometimes I miss working in a print shop. ☺
why do I find comfort watching this even though I have no immediate need for it? there must be something about working with paper that is nice...
Maybe it's ASMR?
My 12 year old grandson wrote his autobiography. It is 20 pages (plus some additions)and we were trying to figure out how to bind it! This is so perfect and your instructions are wonderful. They are clear and simple. Thank you!
That is so lovely. I’m kind of interested as to what made it into his auto at 12!
That's awesome! I wish I had saved my writings from when I was twelve.
surprised he had 20 pages
Wow! I just printed a 200 page (two sided) sewing machine manual. Now I know what my next project is. Thank you!
My grandfather was a journalist and we always had endless stocks of paper around the house, some of the documents or empty journals being binded just like that. I had no clue that they were HAND binded! It makes so much sense, since he loved to DIY everything. Oh, it makes me so nostalgic. Thank you for tutorial 🤍
A Manila file folder could substitute for the card stock and strip of tape. Folders are usually scored along the fold edge to get more width. Fold as will be needed for the depth of the stack of loose papers. Glue the loose papers as shown here but without the card stock covers. Add glue to the inside of the folder down in the crease, add the glued loose papers and clamp.
You've missed the whole point of the channel
Thank you so much for demonstrating this type of binding!! I'm a full-time graduate student, and I am constantly printing and filing my research papers. Now, I can make my favorites into beautiful books. Also, I greatly appreciate how you've kept the materials simple and affordable!🌟
I love this. There must have been, oh, 25,000 moments over the past couple of decades when my limited intellect prevented me from thinking of this myself but it would have been perfect. Thank you. Beautifully presented.
Just bound my first pages following this excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for the extremely clear explanations!
My friends and I recently got into a game that has all its rules online in pdf format, and I was looking for a way to bind them together when I printed them out. This looks like a great solution in terms of cost, time, and simplicity. I don't expect the rulebook to be very big, but if it was, I'd imagine a stitching method might be better in that case. This simple method also seems like it'd work nicely for some other projects I've had in mind.
asking out of curiousity, whats name of game?
What game is it?
@@chetneetchouhan u nosy af😭
late to the party, but isn't the game you're referring to "keep talking and nobody explodes?"
Same I'm here because of printing out PDFs that are 20-30 pages for my players of pathfinder roleplaying game using a Canon PIXMA G620 inkwell. Printing on card stock. Fun to spoil your players sometimes. Great video!
as someone who has never been able to will myself to write/draw in a non-ring journal for fear of ruining/wasting it but have been able to use ones that other people handmade for me, this is invaluable
Thank you.
Great video! My grandma recently passed and I’d like to combine her full page recipes. I’ll have to do some practicing first!
Condolences to you and your family. What a sweet way to remember her, with a book of her recipes. 💕
I love this. I don't know why, but I'm drawn to printing and binding. My career has nothing to with this, aside from doing battle with office printers to get a few sheets out of them. Thank you for sharing this.
I did this with a printed out ROM Dump of a BBC Microcomputer over 30 years ago and I still have it to this day.
Very COoL. You win the super geek award hands down. I'm N-V-US. Cheers GrahaM
Nobody needs to know about your toilet antics here sir!
...but have you written an emulator of it yet? So that, you know, more people can avail themselves to the ol' microcomputer's capabilities?
Ah yes. But I used huge bull clips, wish I'd known this technique then. Those were the days. They promised us the "paperless office" and we ended up killing forests-worth of trees to capture our zillion-page printouts!
I learned this trick doing an internship in a book binding shop. Thanks for mentioning grain, I had forgotten about its significance in this case.
Having bound thousands of books as double fan adhesive binds (most with specialised equipment, but many by hand), I can say this is a thorough and skilled presentation. The importance of grain direction is perhaps understated, since cross-grained papers often produce a waviness along the gutter margin that is unsightly and degrades openability. Same goes for coated (slick magazine) papers.
Probably best to leave other attachments near the spine, like staples, out -- as they will interfere with consistent fanning and produce unbalanced stresses after binding. Also, if you're not too steady with the glue brush and want a more stable target than that springy spine, you can roll the clamped stack of pages around a length of thick dowel -- as long as the clamps are far enough away from the spine.
Also, for a somewhat sturdier construction or with very heavy paper stocks, the reinforcing spine strip can be augmented by adding a thin layer (paper or cloth) covering the width of the spine only. Simplest way to do this precisely is by including several waste sheets on both sides of the initial fan bind. After drying, the spine can be reglued and a generous strip of paper or cloth attached. After drying, a sharp knife is inserted on top of the last waste sheet before the cover stock. Holding the blade very flat against the book at a mid-angle to the spine cut all the outer waste sheets, glue, and excess reinforcement away -- without any scalloping cuts into the cover stock. After both sides are trimmed this way the remaining sheet of waste paper can be peeled away from each side. Should be very straight and clean, with only a bit of skinning at the edge. Add final colored strip to back and sides. (Unless this is considered a very temporary binding, it's best to avoid tapes and stick to glues here.)
That method of binding is surprisingly satisfying.
This was brilliant. Thank you. I'm a collector of hobbies and crafting and some of my pass times result in tons of loose-leaf material. I get very sad when I lose pages, ripped off of staples or lost out of bundles, but I have never found a satisfactory way to store neatly. Never occurred to me that I could do a simple binding on them. Truly thank you
The tip of double fanning pages is really helpful thank you ❤
Double-fan. Mind blown. I can't unsee this technique now once I have witnessed it. Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely love your video. I hope you come back. I spent at least a year in South Africa and the charming lilt of the SA accent is not lost on me. Have a beautiful holiday !season and I’ll try your tricks for binding 17 Holiday booklets for my seniors’ communities where i sing. Take care, Susan.
Thanks very much!
your video is still sueful 2.5 years later. gonna check out more. thanks.
What a wonderful find! I usually put all my music in 3 ring binders or pay to have plastic comb binding. This is so lovely and clean! Thank you for sharing.
This is amazing! I never knew you coild basically bind your own book like a real publisher! Thank you!
This was exactly what I needed!
Clear, simple, easy to follow instructions with no silly fluff, only useful information.
Many thanks for your video! 🙏💞
Excellent demonstration. I have been buying coil binding for years. This looks more economical.
Thank you for making this video, it’s a very helpful resource. ❤
When I took print shop in the 1960s we were taught to "pad" paper. Special clamps were used to hold the paper. Glue was painted on the spine. If the pad was made for tear off the glue was left to dry. More permanent attachment of papers were accomplished by applying backing cloth to the spine. When the paper paper came off the clamp glue was applied and backing cloth bent around the faces
YOU should have made a video! There is actual valuable info. here..the one we just watched was elementary and pretty much a waste of time. Appreciate your info re cloth on the spine. Thanx.
Thank you. This is very helpful to know. Your instruction was very clear. You were thorough too.
You're welcome. Thanks for your kind words.
That was so helpful. I always used comb binders but was never happy with the look. This way adds character to filed documents. Thank you very much!
A useful method. I spent over a decade doing artwork, so I will try it. Thanks.
Thank you very much, this is the perfect way to deal with all the loose pages from my studies, too.
Your voice is very soothing and your explanations are very helpful. Thank you!
Oh, I like this!
When you were listing off the options at the beginning of the video, ai THOUGHT you were going to go down the rabbit hole of using a sewing machine to bind the pages together, But I LOVE THIS OPTION! THANK YOU!!!
This is Utube gold, in my opinion. Many thanks!
Excellent. A good clear description. Just what I need to fix my art folder.
Glad it was helpful!
This is so going to make my office /studio more organized and tidy. What a helpful tip. Thank you so much for sharing it!
THIS was exactly what I was looking for in all the binding videos here on RUclips. THANK YOU!
was thinking of dipping my pages in glue so came to yt for some clairty & found your brilliant vid...quick,straight to point & an easy to do fix..thank you!
Very helpful. I have a collection of letters that a friend wrote to me that I will bind in this way. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you so much for sharing I have been writing my story for my children and was wondering how I was going to bind it, This is perfect. Thanks again.
You're a great teacher. This will help make better use of my stack of reclaimed single side paper.
My IPad is full and I mean FULL of copied pictures and notes from tutorials. It takes me so long to find articles I need, but now I can print them all out and bind and name and file them..
Thank you for saving my sanity….Lynne.
Love that the article you’re binding is about Gregory of Nyssa, Macrina from Annesi Bindings! I see what you did there.
this is exactly what I needed! I have an opera score that is currently living in a binder, which is clunky and difficult to maneuver in rehearsal, and the first loose page binding tutorial I tried was effective, but a bit more time consuming, not as polished as I'd like it to be, and more difficult than this method seems. I will be giving this a go tonight!
I'm just waiting for a few more leafs to come loose in some of the older comic books I've inherited from my grandpa, and to get my plough, to finally try this method. Even though this is quite simple and effective, I'm super scared of ruining the few things I have from him.
Were they perfect bound (or loose leaves) to start with? Personally, I'd be hesitant to use this method for something that is already in signatures, especially something personally valuable. But I may be misunderstanding you.
@@AnnesiBindings the only ones with loose leaves are perfect bound. All my comics bound in signatures (staple bound) are all perfectly fine. I have a few hundred comics in both bindings, perfect and staple bound, but I've inherited only a handful of them, and some of the perfect bound ones I bought also have many loose leaves, so I'll probably try it in some of them before trying in my grandpa's comics, since they don't have as much emotional value.
@@graciouscompetentdwarfrabbit Oh, okay, now I understand! That sounds like a good idea.
I love this! I could even decorate the binding or label it. Thank you.
this was so helpful and great for beginners like me :D thank you so much!!
my final result was pretty good, just a bit worried about the middle pages of my book that look like they may fall out. i added some more glue to these pages that divide a little at their split, but other than that, a simple, fun and efficient way to bind loose pages.
So happy to have stumbled across this video as this looks like a great economical and simple way to bind sheets together. I always have great difficulty with my comb binder in remembering exactly how to do it and waste a great deal of time working out the correct method. But this is so simple, it'd be impossible to forget. I'm going to give it a try right away! Thank you!
I love this! Now I don't have to buy a binding machine.
HI, on the last day of 1999 I decided to journalize the new millennium. I found a pre-WW1 book which showed how to bind books with the traditional stitching method. I needed to create a daily record of my life and times for posterity so that my journals need to be robust to stand the test of time. I use hardboard for the covers, plaited Irish linen saddlers thread for the stitching and 140gm archival cartridge paper for the leaves. Each journal has 11 x 6 registers of folded A4 to A5 which gives me roughly a years worth of recording on a daily basis. I find that the cartridge paper takes watercolour and pen and ink sketching quite well. I have 19 volumes to date. I do a lot of design sketching on random bits of paper that tend to get thrown into a folder so your tutorial is really great and will held me keep them together. In South Africa we need to be resourceful as a lot of custom book binding is hard to come by.
Wow, thank you for this clear instruction. I just stumbled on your instruction’s while viewing art videos. I have a set of instructions that I will try this on.
Thank you so much for making this video! I was looking for a way to bind regular copy paper, as opposed to the thicker pages typically used in single-sheet binding tutorials. This is the perfect solution for me, can’t thank you enough!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Very helpful with a British accent, wot?!😊
Great clearly explained video. I’m new to bookbinding and found this extremely helpful
thank god,i needed this so badly for a little project we are doing for a subject at school!
tysm for this helpful tutorial
oh this is perfect! ive been looking for something simple, fast, and easy to follow! this literally helped me out so much and only gave out the basic information you need to do it- thank you soo much you saved my skin by a lot!
Your videos are fantastic. So precise and fact based. I am so excited to start binding my artwork into little books. Thanks for sharing your process!
Thank for sharing your experience.
Hey, that was interesting. Not sure when or how often I would do it, but good to know! Thanks!!
I love the method! I have tons of knitting and sewing materials I need to bind rather than bulky three ring binders.
Thanks for the book binding 101 class, from old New Orleans 😇
Not sure how I ended up here, but this is the sort of thing the girls in my class would spend their afternoons on, while I was still fishing out 8 crumbled of total 12 pages from my backpack and call it a successful number.
Very good. I've done this kind of binding, but the twist here is to slightly fan the sheets as the glue is applied.
Just what I wanted! I was thinking about doing a project that required a lot of printing and personal book making, and I wanted a way to do that without it looking rushed/bad/hacked together. Thank you for the video!
Thank you…….you made it look doable……Happy Christmas to you and yours .
Thank you, and to you!
Brilliant! Exactly what I was looking for. Very well explained and demonstrated. Thank you
Thanks. I used this to bind some family memoirs. It came out great.
My sister prints out tons and tons of articles. She's a PhD student. This looks like it might be useful. I might see if I can bind some of them into sort of a makeshift magazine. Certainly a lot more organizers than just binder clips of paper rolling everywhere
Thank you for teaching me this book-binding method. I've been looking for an alternative to report covers and binders for smaller documents and ran across this video. It is perfect for my needs, although I am still in the practice stage and am still honing my technique.
This was incredible!! I am a musician composing classical music and have been looking to try out some binding options for sheet music. I WILL BE TRYING THIS. Thank you.😄
So simple, love it!!!
Thank you!
I've done the same thing without the binder strip. I saturated the binding with wood glue, and they have held up pretty well. I do like the strip if nothing else than cosmetics.
For the outside panel I print my own cover. The title of what is contained. You can include graphics like a picture of some deer or a rose if it is appropriate. For that matter with that strip, you could print the title down the spine too.
Thank you!! I tear out coloring books so i can color the pages easily. Now i know how to put them back when they're done!
Really enjoyed this. Used to do a little bookbinding in the past, and this is a great method for a simple small job, and it looks so finished.
Only problem with this binding method is you cannot force the pages to lay flat without risk of breaking the binding. So if it's meant for hand-held reading and not being placed on a stand or a lectern, this is ideal and just looks super.
Love this! Simple but to the point and covers task from start to finish! Huge value for my time and effectiveness to complete an art journal as a birthday present, in record time! Thank you so, so much!
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for!! It’s a very simple method indeed!! I loved it! 👏👏👏
Simple and oh so useful. Brilliant, thank you, I’ll start using this method today!
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for this video! I've been planning on making a book of all my d&d notes so this will be very fun to try out with those :)
Thank you so much my articles have been going all over my home! 😢
But now this simple hack saved my life THANK YOU😊❤
I've been looking for this for a long time. Thanks a ton.
You're welcome, glad it was helpful.
i have some stories id love to bind but as a beginner this seems like such a smart solution! thank you!
I found this so soothing and helpful, thank you!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful.
This is a perfect technique to bind a small booklet say like a comic book. I am doing a DIY comic book printed out on both sides of single pages off my inkjet printer one page at a time. A booklet like that which consist of around 28 to 30 pages is perfect and easy enough for this method of binding. Typically I would staple my pages together along the spine like most comic books but that is done because the comic book is a double page spread. Since I am not doing a double page layout of my book I am doing a single page layout where I print out the first page and then flip the page upside down in my printer and print on the back of the sheet to make the second page and so forth and so on until I have all pages printed. After that then I can use this technique in book binding and all I need is some clips PVA glue and some kind of strip of decorative paper or linen for the spine to bind the comic together. Its a different approach to comic book making and is not the way a professional makes a comic book but I am an independent Illustrator who works out of my own apartment and technically this is a much more efficient way for an artist like myself.
Will use this approach to make myself watercolour journals. thank you.
This is wonderful. I wish I'd known this my whole life. I would have really used it often.
Awesome. I never knew what double fan binding referred to. This will be very useful - thanks
👍 Thank you so much for this video! What a simple and easy instruction! ♥
I've roughed up the clamped pages and used hot glue to DIY perfect binding like this. What I do now in addition to this is either drill (battery powered) or just push and work = a needle through the edge of the clamped or bound pages and do a running stitch. When I travel I buy little notebooks to jot things down. The pages fall out. So I sew them. Maybe 6 holes along the side. Easy to do. Doesn't impede opening or using the notebook at all.
Thanks so much. This is great for my homeschooling worksheets.
Fantastic solution! Thank you very much. I just discovered your channel, and your tutorials are excellent. Everything is so well demonstrated, and helpful. Yhank you for sharing your expertise with us. 🙏
Amazing! You changed my life! thank you!
Thank you for something I can do. I’ll use it soon to bind family memoirs.
Is it going to hold up for the everyday usage of a sketchbook???
Use gorilla glue
I was straining to see the title of your article! Thank you very informative
Thank you for this video. I have some pages I printed this is exactly the video I need.
This was excellent. Good information very clearly explained. Thank you very much. Great job!